New York New York: The City in Art and Literature

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New York New York: The City in Art and Literature – Introduction by Brooke Astor – Copyright 2000 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Good condition!  Looks new!  Dust cover perfect – Minor water damage, barely noticeable.  No tears or creases.

Amazing juxtaposition of Art and Literature on the perfect backdrop; New York!

Contents include:

  •  a Foreword by William Lach
  •  intro by Brook Astor
  •  Henry Adams – from History of the United States of America…
  •  Djuna Barnes – from Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians
  •  Elizabeth Bishop – Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
  •  Anatole Broyard – from Kafka Was the Rage
  •  Truman Capote – from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  •  Willa Cather – from Coming, Eden Bower!
  •  Stephen Crane – from Opium’s Varied Dreams
  •  Willem de Kooning – from Willem de Kooning Remembers Mark Rothko
  •  Charles Dickens – from American Notes
  •  Joan Didion from Goodbye to All That
  •  E. L. Doctorow from Ragtime
  •  John Dos Passos from Manhattan Transfer
  •  F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Great Gatsby
  •  Margret Fuller from Farewell
  •  Allen Ginsberg New York Blues
  •  Nikki Giovanni from The New Yorkers
  •  Lorenz Har from Manhattan
  •  Oscar Hijuelos from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  •  William Dan Howells from Hazard of New Fortunes
  •  Langston Hughes Juke Box Love Song
  •  Jane Jacobs from The death and Life of Great American Cities
  •  Henry James from Washington Square
  •  James Welcon Joans from the Autobigraphy of an Ex-colored Man
  •  Alfred Kazin from New York Jew
  •  Jack Kerouac from On the Road
  •  Emma Lazarus The New Colossus in Which I Love You
  • Li-Young Lee from The City
  • Mary McCarthy from The Group
  •  Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo
  •  Joseph Mitchell from The Rivermen
  •  Toni Morrison from Jazz
  • Ogden Nash I Want New York
  •  Frank O’Hara Steps
  •  O. Henry from An Unfinished Story
  •  Edgar Allan Poe from A Letter to The Columbia Spy, May 27, 1844
  •  Ezra Pound N.Y.
  •  Jacob Riis from How the Other Half Lives
  •  Damon Runyon from The Bloodhounds of Broadway
  •  Carl Sandburg Trinity Place
  •  James Schuyler Wonderful World
  •  Isaac Bashevis Singer from Enemies, A Love Story
  •  Betty Smith from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  •  Edith Wharton from The Age of Innocence
  •  E. B. White from Here is New York
  • Walt Whitman Mannahatta